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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-08-13, Page 10with with her + ation Czar Dr Aline are te Mat' the hr mice it• rniefoe. hip. lie Kraft, Mrs. and 11:; *relay WaL ing hie Mr. family vatatie. Ueda ?J M.re. ICTRY. ding be Mr. 4soe. oe VOICE OF THE PRESS WOMAN IN THE CHAIR Though it was accomplished quietly and without ceremony, a truly historic occasion took place When Mrs. Cora Casselman, M.P. for Edmonton East, sat briefly as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House at Ottawa, It marked the first time a woman has ever presided over a sitting of either House of Parliament in the Dominion Capital, This country has been compara- tively backward in putting WO - men in Parliamentary office. There are but four of them in te Commons and Senate today. But we are progressing.. Mrs. Casselanan's occupancy of the °hair, brief though it was, demon- strates how far we have gone along the road of finally admit- ting that women are "persons." —Windsor Star —0— CORSET LORE Discussions as to the possibil- ity of a shortage of feminine form compressors such as orsets and &dies due to the need of con- serving steel and rubber for war rieede recalls the lines of Samuel Hoffeneetin: Nothing from a straight line swerves o sharply as a woman's curves. These are indeed times that must try the souls of stylish etouts. Some time ago in Eng- land corsets were rationed be- cause of the acute need of steel. It was then Louis Shaw wrote: The ship of state for an even keel, Needs tons and tons ef corset steel, '111ae die is cast, the fates have written The ladies now must bulge fox Britain. —Dunnville Chronicle —0— LESSON FOR FATTIES Ten co-eds of the University of Chicago went without sugar M their food and drink for two weeks by way of experiment. At the end of that time they had lost en agg.„Fegate of over 25 pounds. This may teach some- thing to men, as well as women, in the fatty forties Ind fitties. —St. Thomas Timeseiouinal —0— WANTED TO KNOW Someone has reported the text of a telegram sent to railway headquarters in Nairobi, East Africa, by e. native telegrapher down the line. The telegram read: "Three hoes on platform. Station master in Water tank. Please wire in. elauctionee" —Boston Globe —0— BRIGADIER iN IROQUOIS Brigadier 0. M. Martin, named to command a brigade in the 7th Canadian Division, is a full- blooded Iroquois. Tecumseh would be proud of him, especially as he fought overseas during the Great War with the Canadian infantry and the Royal Flying Corps. —Brockville Recorder and Times TASTE OF BOTH It was Wordsworth's lament that "plain living and high think - are no more." But now the plain living is being enforced and we are beginning some tell think- tng. —Kansas City Star NO OIL; NO DUST Why worry? There won't be enough road oil to lay the dust that motorists won't raise anyway. —Kitchener Record Tank Fights Duel With Italian Sub What seems to be the first duel between a tank and a submarine at sea was fought just before the British campaign in Libya opened, lugs London Calling. A British officer, telling the story in BBC broadcast, explained how, in making our preparations or ts offensive, we reinforced the To- bruk garri.son with heavy infantry tanks Without the Gevmans suspect- ing, the tanks were taken up to Tobruk in small barges—shallow draft vessel's with no great turn of speed. One barge Was nosing gently along the coast bound for Tiehruk when an Italian submar- ine surfaced near her and opened fire. The crew of the tank were aboard and fortunately in their loachine when the attack began. no turret of the tank was just protruding above the gunwale of the barge; it was rapidly swung *round and a two -pounder with armor-etiercing shot was turned on the Italian submarine. The Italian got the shock of his life when a little flat -bottom - a tub of a boat suddenly un- Ieaehed rapid and sustained fire that was altogether too accurate. The submarine ceased fire and. (lived. 'rile barge and cargo went On its way -;; THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST eeeeeeeeeera. £he great task now confronting a iberated America, which more than three-quarters of a century ago fought a four -years war to free the sieves, is to aid in work- ing out the freedom of the whole world from slavery, The Christian Science Board of Directors told several thousand Christian Sei- ritiets gatherest in annual meet- ing in Boston last week. Meeting in their Mother Church under the world -enveloping shad- ow of what is probably the gravest threat to political and religious freedom since the advent of Christianity, the visitors were re- minded in a report by The Chris- tian Science 'Board of Lecture- ship that the union of Britain and ,America was foreseen forty-four years ago by Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Chits- tian Scienqe, as the instrument through which the. rights of free peoples everywhere might be per- manently established and protect-. ed.This welding together of the two great democracies, under the impact of an inteeaetional crisis, said the Lecture. leard,i the consummation afeethe fonetioaes of all Christian iteientista e Beard alluded .epecifically to t. poem written in 1898 by tt Leader of this world-wide reit.. ous movement, Mrs. Eddy, whia vadi, reads in part as follows: ' Brave Britain, AN:erica! Unite your battle - Victorious, all who live it,— The love for Gad 'and man." A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army National unity is a term that has been loosely, often much too loosely, interpreted to mean the interrelation of English and French speaking Canadians. So generally accepted has this inter- pretation become that most of us tegem to have forgotten that na- tional unity is non-existent so long as the tribulations of Cana- dians in any of the provinces are not shared by Canadians in the other provinces. What prompts this sermonizing is the recent flurry over the re- duction of the gasoline rationing unit in the Maritime Provinces from five gallons to two due to a shortage which by the time this reaches print may have disappear- ed. There was a perfectly natural feeling down east that it was not fair that Maritimers should be on "short commons" when drivers in the other six provinces still could obtain their full ration. Ottawa answered by pointing out reasons that fully justified the reduction. All of this is a preamble to the charge that we are failing to live up to our privilege of serving in the ranks of the Individual Citi- zen's Army. How? It should be obvious! }lave we in the central and western parts of the country any moral right to five gallons of gasoline when because of trans- portation or any other difficul- ties, fellow privates in our behind the lines army — who are much eloser to actual warfare and po- tential attack—have to be reduc- ed to two gallons? Why, if there is true national unity, do we not spare the public embarrassment of Ministers we employ to govern ns by voluntar- ily reducing our consumption of gasoline to the lowest level forced upon any geographical section of the Dominion? Citizens of countries where "verboten" is a familiar word read garbled accounts of our pro- vincial differences, accounts that are magnified to the point of waking some of us appear to be "Otipie-ssed minorities,$) when such stories are published. -trt the fact that such stories are pub- lished is the fault of the citizens who fail to give the lead to those they hale set in authority. We cheerfully and voluntarily ration ourselves hi the use of tea, coffee and sugar. Why not ration ourselves in the use of gasoline r If we can drink our fewer cups of tea and coffee unsweetened why can't we walk a mile or two and save the gasoline we would have used for war uses? Across this country from coast to coast business experts are de- voting their talents to the working out of a system of price and sup- ply control that will spare us the horrors .of inflation and maintain stocks of essential war goods for our fighting forces. Some of these men serve without pay, the others—away from their normal occupations—sacrifice the normal advancements and promotions they could expect if they stayed in their own jobs. These inert don't enjoy restrict- ing and controlling their neigh- bours—it takes a Nazi mentality to enjoy that sort of thing—and they welcome action on the part of Canadians that makes their work easier. Why can't we then, who are all out to win the war in the best way we can, make rationing and control unnecessary. Surely we can stint ourselves for the come mon good! The soldier who leaves a $160 a month job to volunteer to serve in uniform for (in the case of a single man) a little more than half of that amount has voluntar. rationed himself much more severely than we have been called upon. Sugar, tea, coffee, gasoline and tires, as this is written, are the only rationed commodities. It's funny how some of them tie M with each other. The use of less sugar reduces the "spare tires" some of us carry around. The use of less gasoline increases the life of "spare tires" we cannot re- place. Have you joined the Reserve Army yet? Encouraging signs are visible in some parts ot the coun- try since this workable body was set up to givethose ineligible for active service overseas a chance to train themselves for home de- fence but I have not heard any commanding officer say yet that he can't handle any more recruits. That's another branch of the Individual Citizen!s Army! utcb a bor Dutch Harbor is situated an tiny Amaknak Island in e deep inlet of the northern shore of much larger Unalaska Island, one of the long chain of Aleutians which tring out in al weeping are toward japan. It is about 2,835 air miles from Tokyo on the Southwest, and 2,846 Miles from San Francisco on the South- east. It thus forms the apex for a roughly triangular line which might be drawn on the map be- tween the three points. From Seattle, Wash, to Dutch Harbor is about 1,900 air nailee. The United States has been building fortifications there since 1940. Their extent has been kept secret. Dutch Harbor, which until re. cently was only a village with a. trading post, a fuel oil depot, and a naval radio station, reedy-. ed its Amalie because of the tradi- tion that a Dutch ship first en- tered its bay, a bulletin from the National Geographic Society points out. Russian navigators, however, early came this way. They knew the then -busy fur - sealing centre by its native Es- kimo name of Udakta. Later, the harbor became a way station for vessels making for the gold rush.„. regiolsa.of the Yukon and Na arbor is 1% miles long mile in width. Water deep near the shores and in ...tee parts of the harbor; violent gales occasionally sweep these waters, when mariners are warned to look out for williwaws, sudden gusts of cold land air, common along mountainous coasts of high latitudes. SCOUTING N Scoutmasters, Cubma sters and Commissioners of India last year contributed 10,000 aupees, or 750 pounds, to Britain's War Dis- tressed Scouts Fund for Scout air raid sufferers. Toronto Boy Scout Leaders have been giving cooking instruc- tion to a detachment of fifty girls of the Food Administration Ser- vice of the Canadian Red Cross Corps. The course is being given at the Crooked Creek Boy Scout canapsite, and is a feature of pre- paration's being made by the Red Cross against any war eventuality which may call for the emergency feeding of large numbers of per- Sons - One war service job of Bethnel Green (London) Boy Scouts was the erection recently of 4,000 bunks in local Tube sheltees. * * * War Savings Stamps were the admission tickets sold at the door for a Boy Scout and Girl Guide entertainment at the Noranda High SchooL Discussing the previous spare - Vane training of young recruits for the Imperial Forces, Brig. - General Clark, for over 30 years a training officer of Regular Army and Territorial units, was recently quoted as giving first place to former Boy Scouts. Said General Clark: "A batch df First Class Scouts or Xing's Scouts would prove more acceptable to a Commanding Officer or a Ser- geant Major as recruits than a similar number of lads with any other form of spaee-time occupa- tion in their past." The newest Canadian Boy Scout war service project is the sending of good used Scout uniforms to British Boy Scouts now unable to secure them. * * * A growing proportion of the men of H. M. Forces who have distinguished themselves in im- portant actions with the enemy are being discovezed as former Boy Scouts or Scout leaders. .Among the Swordfish pilots who attacked the warships, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and gave their lives, was Lieut. Elie, a mem- ber of the 150th North London Boy Scout Troop. Lieut, David L. Davies, who took a prominent part in the St Nazaire raid, also was as Scout, and the complete job of "quartermastering" for an- other commando raid was handled by a former Scoutmaster. Lord Lovat, leader of the Boulogne Commando raid, is President of the Inverness-shire Boy Scouts Association. rat*ItI.1.1/1.1.6.0.4116•11....01•06171.1111.,010111.611011.1111ar THE WAR • WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Six Months After Pearl Harbor Japan Strikes In North Pacific The, Japanese military leaders axe presented by the New York Times as advantageousiy sitting in the centre of a circle. Their opponents have had the task of deciding at just what point on that circle they would strike. After the preliminary move against Pearl Habor they moved south. There they strengthened themselves on the rubber and e tin of 1VIalya, the oil and rubber and foodstuffs of the Inclies. Then it was west into Burma, the gateway to Southern China and India. While their am - ion last week marched toward In- dia and hammered at the vital central and. coastal regions of China, their navy again fought in the North Pacific. Still their lead- ers could choose which of all these moves would be the main blow. Midway 'Attack The Japanese had done little in the nortth Pacific eines Pearl Har- bor. Her ships and Zero fighter planes were busy in the south. Ship -plane 'teams won control of the Macassar Strait from Ameri- can forces operating with the Dutch and British, defeated a Un- ited. Nations fleet in the Java Sea. Not until Japan reached the Coral Sea did her string of vic- tories end. There, supported by land-based aircraft, a United Na- tion's fleet drove a strong Japan- ese task force north into her newly conquered islands,. though there was no thought that that victory for the United Nations was final, Last week exactly six mouths after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan again tried her luck in the north. Raiding parties od Japanese aircraft hit at Dutch Harbor in Alaska's Aleutian Is- lands. Southward 1,900 miles, an- other heavier attack was directed against Midway Island, American outpost between Pearl Harbor and Tokyo. This time the Japanese did not find American planes lined up on the ground, so many easy targets for Japanese bombers. They were in the air and fighting. Japanese airplane carriers, battle- ships, cruisers and transports suffered heavy damage, damage far out of proportion, it is report- ed, to that suffered by the defend- ers, The Midway area not only remained in American hands but the Japanese force appeared to limp off after a bad mauling by Army, Navy and Marine Corps fliers. Keystone Of Pacific Both palette attacked by the Jap- anese were shrewdly chosen to draw the concerned attention of American military chieftains. Their militagy value to America was great Dutch. Haebor, a small island of matted grass and five trees, stands near the base of the Aleutians that aro out 1,500 miles toward Japan. It is a place of rain and snow and fog and hard winds, and there the 'United States has a baee which may one day ' be the spriagboard for 'an Week straight at the heart of Japan. De. feusively steeds guard over rther, Alaskan territory which has eoras to have increased strategie viij with the increased military value of airplanee. From Alaska the wide reaches of the Pacific grow small, come within the operating range of aircraft: the 5,135 Miles from Tokyo to San Vrancieeo be- come 2,345. from Dutelf Harbor, As long ago as 1920 Alashet was called "The keystone of the Pat- ine aech". . . Effect Undetermined Midway Island, the second ob- jective of the Japaneee force, Is an atoll of two tiny ielaude sur- rounded by shoals and reefe. Guaeded. heavily by. Army, Navy. and Marine forces, it constitutes almost au outer defense for POEWI, Harbor, 1,300 miles away, Sineri- ca's bastion in the mial-Paeltic, fn. Japanese hands it could be the base for harrying attacks against the big ships berthed at Peart Harbor. The Japanese have paid. it constant attention, atmcking it at leaat once each montlx—ex- cepting for April—since the etaet of the war. But the attacks hove been light, by occasional airplanes or submarines. Carriers and battle- ships operating near Midway last week were attacking fercee og different order. It seems quite conclusive attar that the Japanese ran into a trap at Midway Island and that they were badly stung, But the full ex- tent of the damage they have eat- fered and its effect 'upon per future Japanese operations re- mains to be determined. U. S. Strategic Success Other operations, perhaps even another attack on Hawaii or an. offensive against Rueeia, may have been dependent apea the success of the Midway attack and the mysterious happenings near Dutch Harbor. And in repulsing the Japanese. The Pacific Fleet may well have dealt the enemy a severe blow in the East. But it would seem too early to conclude that the Japanese defeat is a dis- aster. In all probability, the Japanese possess sufficient sea and air strength, even after the Midway losses are subtracted, to attempt - either new offensive actiona or to put up strong resistance against any operations undertaken by the United Nations. Nevertheless, in preventing the Japanese from gaining possession. of Midway, American forces have achieved a strategic suceees of no mean importance. From 1W -id: - way, the Japanese could have raided Pearl Harbor and possibly could have launched a major Pa. cific offensive with ibe West Coast and the Panama Wearal as ultimate objectives. LIFE'S LIKE TFIAT By Fred Neher barom.roverts REG'LAR FELLERS—What's in a Name? SEE WERE, YOU YOUNG ee SCALAWAG: STP BOUNCING ete_ THAT BASEBALL AGAINST THIS WALL *aftaxorapiaae......raa/AMION•aarii AV4 SE A SPORT Nos -cm! IT'S THE BEST WALL IN TOWN CONFOUND IT, BOY.' 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